How to get insights (traffic etc) for github gist?

Getting 'insights' for a repository on github is very straight forward (go to repository url, click 'Insights', go to any section of interest (e.g. traffic etc).

i.e.

How can we see similar stats for a github gist?

Solution

From what I can see, no, there is no traffic recorded for a Gist.

The only recent evolution regarding Gist are:

"Gist notifications " (May 2019)
"Authors subscribed to gists " (June 2019)

Thanks to the OP stevec's own query to GitHub, the official answer is (Sept. 2020):

I'm afraid we do not currently have this feature